Friday Favorites

Another week gone in the blink of an eye – I can’t believe December starts tomorrow! With it comes the kickoff of my 4th (!) annual Month of Holiday Giveaways (excited to share some awesome products with you this year) and my favorite holiday of the year, Christmas, which will be here before we know it.

In preparation, my Mom and are heading up to Minneapolis tomorrow morning for our annual mother/daughter trip to the Mall of America, to get all of our holiday shopping done in one fell swoop. My brothers and I decided to do a sibling swap this year – each sibling picks another sibling + their spouse, if applicable, out of a hat to get a gift for rather than buying 5+ gifts for everyone, which helps. Time to focus on the babies of the family, you know?

I’ll be working furiously today to get all my duties done before we hit the road. I hope you’ve got some fun plans in the works too, and in the meantime, ENJOY your day, and please also enjoy my favorite finds from around the web in this week’s Friday Favorites!

If this is your first time doing a Tracy Anderson workout, you will not make it straight through! Don’t beat yourself up when your arms start to feel like wet noodles a couple of minutes in!
I have her post-pregnancy workout and it has a brief arm segment. Love the whole workout! Well, now I do anyway. :)

How do you find so many great Friday favorites? Impressive!
Have fun up here in the Twin Cities this weekend. The weather will be great!
We also draw names in our family for Christmas gifts among siblings/in-laws and it makes it sooo much easier. We also have 11 nieces and nephews so had to start just buying for the godchildren as it was getting a little out of control (and expensive!)

I bought the Joan of Arctic boots last year after seeing them on your page! I’m a midwest gal myself and these babies are totally up to the task. Warm, sturdy and totally adorable. I can’t wait for the first big snowfall so I can break them out again this year!

Thanks so much for including my little antipasto skewers in this glorious post! Between the salted caramel chocolate chip cookies. the boozy caramel mocha and the ADORABLE puppy picture my head is just spinning with happiness! Happy Friday. :)

That Tracy arm workout is seriously the hardest arm workout ever…arms were sore for a week! Never knew you could work your arms like that without weights!!! Kristen will you be doing a holiday workout challenge this year? I always enjoy your posts about it….

Funny that you mention the sibling gift swap…this is the first year we’re going that route as well! With seven sibs/significant others, the shipping costs get pretty outrageous. Great minds think alike I guess ;) Safe travels to MOA!

Those Sorel boots. Those.Sorel.Boots. They haunt me. I passed up on a pair last spring at an outlet store. They were 75% off. I know! What was I thinking?? I think it was 60 degrees out and I couldn’t imagine wearing them right then and I am A FOOL. Sigh.

I live 20 minutes away from Knaresborough in Harrogate. It is beautiful and I’m quite sad to be moving back to the states next year!! I love the states, just not ready to leave all the beauty and history!

I have the sorrel Joan of Arctic boots-it is going into my 3rd winter w/ them and they will not disappoint. They look every bit as good this year as the day I bought them. I wear them a lot in the snow, not just for style like my uggs-so they have taken some abuse. I live in Northern NY and we get a long, hard winter. Love mine:)!

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